{"id":48592,"date":"2018-10-13T02:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T20:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=48592"},"modified":"2018-10-13T02:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T20:47:12","slug":"connectivity-a-challenge-pema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/10\/13\/connectivity-a-challenge-pema\/","title":{"rendered":"Connectivity a challenge: Pema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>GUWAHATI, Oct 12:<\/strong> Chief Minister Pema Khandu has said the biggest challenge for Arunachal is connectivity.<br \/>\nPema said this on Friday while attending an event on &#8216;Inclusive and sustainable development of North East region by 2022&#8217;, organized by the confederation of Indian industries (CII) under the initiative of &#8216;India@75 &#8211; co-creating India of 2022.<br \/>\nHe said the state has great potential in tourism, hydro and agri-horti sectors, but is not exploited to its full extent due to lack of good connectivity.<br \/>\nHe, however, remained optimist that with assistance from the central government on rail, road and air connectivity, the connectivity bottleneck will be overcome in coming days.<br \/>\nThe chief minister said one of the major hindrances in the future of hydro project&#8217;s growth is the long duration for the hydro projects to obtain clearances that extend beyond 10 years. He said the issue must be discussed to sort out such hindrances.<br \/>\nPema also brought forth the people&#8217;s sentiments attached with their land.<br \/>\nHe said locals must be brought into confidence before going ahead with hydro projects. He further said the concerns of downstream people must also be taken onboard.<br \/>\nThe chief minister further called for combined focus area for investment in the North East. He said the region as well the state has best quality horticulture products.<br \/>\nHe also called for air connectivity within the region.<br \/>\nAssam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, including Deputy Chief Minister of Tripura, Jishnu Dev Varma also attended the session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI, Oct 12: Chief Minister Pema Khandu has said the biggest challenge for Arunachal is connectivity. Pema said this on Friday while attending an event on &#8216;Inclusive and sustainable development of North East region by 2022&#8217;, organized by the confederation of Indian industries (CII) under the initiative of &#8216;India@75 &#8211; co-creating India of 2022. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}